Amazing…we already have the solution, but we don’t care. We are the only industrialized nation being CHEATED out of a national healthcare system (you can still buy private insurance, but most folks dislike the coverage). Rx co-pays are a couple of dollars, Dental co-pays are a couple of dollars. Doctors still earn a quarter million dollars a year AND ARE PROTECTED against ludicrous malpractice suits. Citizens DO NOT have the threat of losing their homes and security when high medical bills arrive in the mail with resultant collection threats: SECURITY AND PEACE OF MIND FOR ALL–what a concept.

luvpudders, do you think that the Health Care Reform put out by Obama is like other country’s health systems? Because I don’t. What was put out was a confusing mess. Yes, there needs to be reform and yes universal health will be the way to go but we can’t just jump in without filling up the pool first.

Anything put on the table, so far, has been a waste of time, yes–definitely. I truly believe we can switch over to an established NHS within weeks. There is absolutely no reason we can’t pattern our system after Canada’s, Great Britain’s or any other industrialized nation. I have no doubt that HR676 (for example) is the way to go.

If one listens to Mitch McConnell, one has the answer to this. He stated early in Obama’s term, that the Republican party’s first job is to make Obama a one term president. To this, everything that the President proposes (even if good for the country) is shot down. To prove the point, just look at all the Republicans who used to be for national health care and now are against it.

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Claire Hughes covers health care in the Capital Region for the Times Union